The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom

We wish to thank John Bound, Charlie Clotfelter and Caroline Hoxby for helpful comments on this paper as well as seminar participants at Cornell University, MIT, the University of Texas - Dallas, the University of Akron, the National Bureau of Economic Research Household Finance Meeting, and the American Education Finance Association Annual Meeting. We are additionally grateful to Jen Doleac for excellent research assistance. We thank the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the Pew Charitable Trust Economic Mobility Project for financial support; all errors, omissions and conclusions are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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